Ulster trash agency sets special collection

TOWN OF ULSTER, N.Y. -- The Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency has set April 20 for free collection of household hazardous waste, unwanted pharmaceuticals, and broken electronic items.

Registration is necessary for the event scheduled for 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the agency facility at 999 Flatbush Road/state Route 32.

Agency recycling coordinator Michelle Bergkamp during a meeting last week said interest in the event has grown significantly.

"We have roughly ... 200 people registered but it's about a month away," she said. "We usually get a minimum of 400 or 500 people."

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Officials in a press release report that over nearly 20 years of collections that about 25,000 county residents have brought more than 2 million pounds of household hazardous waste.

"With the recent addition of the expired medication take-back and electronics recycling programs, quantities of materials being collected are increasing with each event," they wrote. "Last year over 1,500 pounds of expired medications and over 150,000 pounds of used electronic equipment have been collected at the events."